Update: Activision has confirmed that the Treyarch-ported "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" will launch on Wii on November 10th.
Update: Activision has confirmed that the Treyarch-ported "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" will launch on Wii on November 10th.
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Posted: Aug 4th 2009 9:00PM (Unverified) said
In all honesty, if the reviews are good and the rumor is true, I may end up getting this game for the hell of it. The only reason I'm even getting MW2 is because that's the only game my friends will be playing for the next year (likewise with 4 and W@W - I'm much more into Halo, Lost Planet, TF2, and even Shadowrun), but I'd actually get this version because I'd be genuinely interested in playing it pending it not being ass ugly of course.
Posted: Aug 5th 2009 2:52PM JXCGunrunna said
they did try something new, it was called Call of Duty 4, MODERN WARFARE
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Posted: Aug 4th 2009 9:05PM Vcize said
So Call of Duty 4, on the Wii, will come out after Call of Duty 5, on the Wii?
Posted: Aug 4th 2009 9:24PM Gun Barrier said
Its probably the reason they didnt put 5 in the title of CODWaW. So it doesn't seem as awkward,
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Posted: Aug 4th 2009 11:01PM Wickerman22 said
Well, not really, because it was never called Call of Duty 5.
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Posted: Aug 4th 2009 9:10PM (Unverified) said
Damn that tit is dry
Posted: Aug 4th 2009 9:15PM (Unverified) said
You can make really cool layered Jello with evaporated milk though!
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Posted: Aug 4th 2009 9:38PM Mr Khan said
This might satisfy those longstanding rumors that Modern Warfare 2 had been in development. It could also satisfy that age-old job listing at Infinity Ward for a Wii programmer (even if it is developed overall by Treyarch, they'll have IW staff on hand)
Either way, its good news. Further cultivation of the Call of Duty brand on Wii can only be better for all.
Either way, its good news. Further cultivation of the Call of Duty brand on Wii can only be better for all.
Posted: Aug 4th 2009 9:51PM (Unverified) said
I would like that. I played it to death on the PC, but that didn't have Wii Remote pointer controls, and I'm a sucker for those kind of controls in FPS. If it's done right, I'll probably pick this up.
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Posted: Aug 4th 2009 10:05PM False said
This has to be a fake rumor. No way the Wii goes from WaW to CoD4. Why wouldn't they just do Modern Warfare 2?
Posted: Aug 4th 2009 10:30PM (Unverified) said
Actually, this is legitimately interesting to me. I got to mess around with World at War on the Wii a while back and fount it was actually pretty cool. I still prefer playing on the 360, but it wasn't half-bad. Could be interesting to see how it works out.
Posted: Aug 4th 2009 10:37PM (Unverified) said
I suck at dual analog controls for FPSs, so this'll be nice.
Yeah, the reason I don't own a PS3 or Xbox 360 is because I suck at FPSs with analog control...
Yeah, the reason I don't own a PS3 or Xbox 360 is because I suck at FPSs with analog control...
Posted: Aug 4th 2009 10:44PM (Unverified) said
actually dual analog anything, not just FPS. PCs spoiled me.
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Posted: Aug 4th 2009 10:53PM samfish said
Wow, that is just fucking insulting to Wii owners.
It might not bad THAT bad if it wasn't releasing the same day as MW2...but that's just like rubbing salt in the wound.
It might not bad THAT bad if it wasn't releasing the same day as MW2...but that's just like rubbing salt in the wound.
Posted: Aug 5th 2009 12:32AM hortonamos said
Hmm... I loved MW on PS3, and right now I am loving the Conduit (especially the controls) on the Wii. So you merge the best of each together, it sounds like a good idea.
But there are definitely problems. W@W was ugly as hell on Wii and full of hackers. The framerate was nasty too. And, if Treyarch is doing MW for Wii, I can only assume it will have the same problems (that doesn't mean I won't give them a chance to prove me wrong).
If they make it a smooth, fun experience that controls as well as the Conduit, I might be down. But I am willing to bet this will be another crappy cash-in like Dead Rising: Chop til you Drop (assuming of course it is real).
But there are definitely problems. W@W was ugly as hell on Wii and full of hackers. The framerate was nasty too. And, if Treyarch is doing MW for Wii, I can only assume it will have the same problems (that doesn't mean I won't give them a chance to prove me wrong).
If they make it a smooth, fun experience that controls as well as the Conduit, I might be down. But I am willing to bet this will be another crappy cash-in like Dead Rising: Chop til you Drop (assuming of course it is real).
Posted: Aug 5th 2009 1:00AM (Unverified) said
Enjoy overpaying for a 2 year old, downgraded game on the Wii.
Posted: Aug 5th 2009 1:31AM religiousjedi said
Wait...how am I overpaying? I already have my Wii console. So I'm slapping down $50 for a 2 year old game (plus taxes).
So you're saying that I wouldn't be overpaying for a $200/$500 console and a $60 2 year old game (plus taxes) just to play in your same fashion?
Hmm...$50 dollars for a game on a console I already own vs. $260 or $560 dollars to enjoy one game...hmm...that's really tough...
:l
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So you're saying that I wouldn't be overpaying for a $200/$500 console and a $60 2 year old game (plus taxes) just to play in your same fashion?
Hmm...$50 dollars for a game on a console I already own vs. $260 or $560 dollars to enjoy one game...hmm...that's really tough...
:l
Posted: Aug 5th 2009 2:47AM (Unverified) said
What I'm saying is the game is less than 50 dollars now (PC) hence the overpaying.
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Posted: Aug 5th 2009 9:35AM religiousjedi said
But a capable computer is needed, and sometimes that isn't something everyone has...
(And yes...I already have CoD4 on my Mac.)
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(And yes...I already have CoD4 on my Mac.)
Posted: Aug 5th 2009 2:45PM (Unverified) said
Finally, Infinity Ward is too racist to Wii to make it so Treyarch has to have the day.
Posted: Aug 5th 2009 3:03PM JXCGunrunna said
How fucking stupid are you kid? I mean really? thats a serious question I would love for you to answer. Racist? How is a piece of hardware a race? and even if you went the route of "the Wii is Japanese" so is the PS3 and it has CoD4.
So now that we have the easy stuff out of the way lets talk about how fucking dumb you are outside of the misuse of racist. IW is first and foremost a PC dev. they made 2 games on the PC before even touching a Console and then after they started on the consoles they only made CoD2 for the 360 because it is a PC that looks like a console. The whole company including contractors is just over 100 people and that includes 402 who does not program. plus they have artists that do not program. On top of having a small team, they also develop and mod their engine instead of just using something someone else created.
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So now that we have the easy stuff out of the way lets talk about how fucking dumb you are outside of the misuse of racist. IW is first and foremost a PC dev. they made 2 games on the PC before even touching a Console and then after they started on the consoles they only made CoD2 for the 360 because it is a PC that looks like a console. The whole company including contractors is just over 100 people and that includes 402 who does not program. plus they have artists that do not program. On top of having a small team, they also develop and mod their engine instead of just using something someone else created.
Posted: Aug 5th 2009 3:17PM (Unverified) said
WELL WHY THE FUCK WONT INFINITY WARD MAKE WII GAMES?! WHY DO WII GET LEFT OUT????? ITS OBVIOUSLY POSSIBLE TO MAKE COD 4 AND THEY DIDN'T! IT'S LAZINESS!
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Posted: Aug 5th 2009 4:30PM JXCGunrunna said
Do you have a job? if you do, which i dont think you are old enough to by the way you act, try adding 33% more responsibility to whatever you do in the same about of time it takes to whatever it is you do. oh you cant? you must be lazy.
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Posted: Aug 5th 2009 4:37PM (Unverified) said
Im not lazy, I actually have a real job and I make flash games with Scratch (not the most difficult program to use, but i do a good job)
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Posted: Aug 6th 2009 7:23AM I AM IRONHIDE said
@JXC
He was kidding about the racial part. You didn't see that?
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He was kidding about the racial part. You didn't see that?
Posted: Aug 5th 2009 1:22PM (Unverified) said
it took two years for a port?
fuck activision.
fuck activision.
Posted: Aug 5th 2009 8:52AM samfish said
"If the devs make a better product than half-assing it the game will sell"
Keyword is "If".
So far, we're still waiting, it's fair to say.
Keyword is "If".
So far, we're still waiting, it's fair to say.
Posted: Aug 5th 2009 9:32AM Arnold D said
Am I the first to say that anyone interested in playing COD4 actually owns a true next gen console? How many people with Wii's are going to buy this game? 75% of them are perfectly happy playing "casual games"
Posted: Aug 5th 2009 11:40AM Nook said
I own a Wii, I like FPS. I will buy this.
Now all of this clicky type console talk reminds me of being in school. Let's take a looksie at your running figure of 75% of Wii owners having no interest because they are too busy being casual.
53 million Wii units to date sold - less 75% casuals, leaves a bit over 13 million Wii units out there.
Any company would be happy to get that kind of sales on a title. Will it? No, but it'll crack a mil easy in the first 6 months.
And why all the Treyarch hate? CoD3 was not that great, but compared to what it launched against and when it launched it was much better than say...Red Steel. W@W is a great Wii game.
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Now all of this clicky type console talk reminds me of being in school. Let's take a looksie at your running figure of 75% of Wii owners having no interest because they are too busy being casual.
53 million Wii units to date sold - less 75% casuals, leaves a bit over 13 million Wii units out there.
Any company would be happy to get that kind of sales on a title. Will it? No, but it'll crack a mil easy in the first 6 months.
And why all the Treyarch hate? CoD3 was not that great, but compared to what it launched against and when it launched it was much better than say...Red Steel. W@W is a great Wii game.
Posted: Aug 5th 2009 11:51AM hortonamos said
I own a Wii and nothing else (I get my PS3 fix from friends). And I consider myself a 'core' gamer, just one who happens to be strapped for cash and has a kid. The Wii is the smartest choice for me, even if wii owners do get shafted with crappy ports alot of the time. So as long as MW isn't a crappy port, I will give it a chance.
Not everybody has 300-400 dollars to drop on a system, then $60 every time a game comes out.
And it's not that wii gamers aren't interested in "hardcore" titles, it's that we refuse to buy crappily made ones.
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Not everybody has 300-400 dollars to drop on a system, then $60 every time a game comes out.
And it's not that wii gamers aren't interested in "hardcore" titles, it's that we refuse to buy crappily made ones.
Posted: Aug 5th 2009 12:58PM StormEagle said
So there's a $50 price difference between the 360 and the Wii. To say that you couldn't afford the 360 at the time is ridiculous. And MW will be be a crappy port because the Wii can't handle the great graphics, lighting, sound, etc. You'll be lucky to get decent multiplayer out of it, I'd wager. For your sake though, I hope I'm wrong.
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Posted: Aug 5th 2009 3:57PM Nook said
Storm Eagle - so just because the box is $50 (depending on where you live, ever leave the county?) one should forgo previous user experience to take a chance on a product that has a good chance of 'something' going wrong with it makes sense?
Just for a game?
Idiocy IMO.
Of course if you'd like to foot the bill and have a big ol cup of STFU - I'll give you my paypal address and you send those bells right on over.
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Just for a game?
Idiocy IMO.
Of course if you'd like to foot the bill and have a big ol cup of STFU - I'll give you my paypal address and you send those bells right on over.
Posted: Aug 5th 2009 3:19PM DarkSan00 said
hopefully, the online will use the new thing implemented for GH5 on the wii, using only the console friend code. That alone would make the online better. Also, COD4 wasn't that much of a graphically impressive game IMO.
Posted: Aug 5th 2009 3:21PM (Unverified) said
hopefully this is a test and we'll see more iw cod titles on the wii.
possibly a test to see how it sells or how easy it is to port?
possibly a test to see how it sells or how easy it is to port?
Posted: Aug 6th 2009 11:44AM (Unverified) said
I think the xbox360/ps3 owners are angry and have fear, becose if Treyarch release a game will all the features and modes, graphics as close the xbox360/ps3 versions, motion+ support, Wiispeak support and DLC with all map packs the original has. This port will be the Definitive version and the best!!
Due this Activision strategy is sure that we see MW2 on the Wii soon!!
Due this Activision strategy is sure that we see MW2 on the Wii soon!!
Posted: Aug 10th 2009 7:30AM (Unverified) said
I observe that Treyarch saw that they absolutely did the Call of Duty name "Horrible" in which he putted some great graphics and features to attract its users as well as new buyers and i found this as the good achievement of the producer...............
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Posted: Aug 10th 2009 10:22AM (Unverified) said
Tmac
Underpowered??? Have you ever played Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3 or MadWorld????? Get your damn facts straight.
Underpowered??? Have you ever played Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3 or MadWorld????? Get your damn facts straight.
Posted: Aug 10th 2009 3:00PM (Unverified) said
I am a Wii-only owner. I don't know why now, but originally I got it so when I did make a little time to play a game, I would have fun and not get sucked in like I used to with the PC games and X-Box games. So much life lost there. That said, Treyarch's COD 5:WaW used the COD4 game engine from 360 to create what I think is an extremely awesome and addicting online game. Sure it's limited, and I expect this direct port of COD4 will be equally limited, but I really don't care. There's no way this will be considered a lame addition by a Wii-specific gamer. Anybody who's enjoyed the work they did with COD5 is likely going to enjoy this equally, and that's a lot of Wii players.
It's nice that Treyarch set aside the time to give us a little taste of what you "hardcore" advanced system gamers have experienced. They threw us a proverbial bone.
It's nice that Treyarch set aside the time to give us a little taste of what you "hardcore" advanced system gamers have experienced. They threw us a proverbial bone.
Posted: Aug 11th 2009 11:23AM suade94 said
If this is a full version, then that's awesome. The posts on this thread are more about hating on the Wii than Call of Duty. WTF?? Call of Duty 4 is considered by many FPS'ers as a classic and the Wii could use more FPS. For me W@W and the Conduit play very different from each other and I enjoy both. I want another solid FPS and I don't know of anything else coming for the Wii until sometime in 2010. And that’s if The Grinder gets a publisher. I absolutely think W@W has shortcomings, but not where game play is concerned. If Activision wants my money then I want DLC(or at least the original DLC content on disk), Wii Speak support, and more than eight player online. If it’s note full featured then forget it.
Posted: Aug 16th 2009 10:01PM (Unverified) said
Well my opinion is that this game can be properly ported if Treyarch doesn't try to rush and I suspect that this port of the game has been in the process since Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare came out. Your probably asking, Why the fuck would the game come out 2 years after the original release of the game? Simple. Quantum of Solace and World at War were both based of the CoD 4 engine. How would they make the two games if there was no test subject?
Granted Quantum of Solace wasn't the best game made by Treyarch but that was simply because it was a movie to game adaptation and they probably had a tight schedule, especially since they were building World at War also. And something everyone keeps getting wrong about the name of the Cod 4 port is that it's not called Cod 4, its new name is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. And to add to my thoughts on this port I have the feeling that all the map packs that may have been released on the PS3/360 or on PC will be added to the Wii version and they will try to maintain all the components of the original game.
Why can't we just have a little faith in Treyarch, because at least their bringing the game to Wii?
Granted Quantum of Solace wasn't the best game made by Treyarch but that was simply because it was a movie to game adaptation and they probably had a tight schedule, especially since they were building World at War also. And something everyone keeps getting wrong about the name of the Cod 4 port is that it's not called Cod 4, its new name is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. And to add to my thoughts on this port I have the feeling that all the map packs that may have been released on the PS3/360 or on PC will be added to the Wii version and they will try to maintain all the components of the original game.
Why can't we just have a little faith in Treyarch, because at least their bringing the game to Wii?
Posted: Aug 22nd 2009 1:26AM Enosoma said
Everyone bitches about downgraded graphics, and how it's going to kill the game.
I still play Tetris. In fact, you could replace the neat & tidy square pixels with turds or Paris Hilton and the core gameplay is still fun. Trust me, I've tried it.
By the way, the graphics DO look terrible. Even by Wii standards.
I doubt I'll be picking this one up. Then again, I won't be getting MW2 for my 360 either. At least, not until the inevitable online bugs are sorted out.
I still play Tetris. In fact, you could replace the neat & tidy square pixels with turds or Paris Hilton and the core gameplay is still fun. Trust me, I've tried it.
By the way, the graphics DO look terrible. Even by Wii standards.
I doubt I'll be picking this one up. Then again, I won't be getting MW2 for my 360 either. At least, not until the inevitable online bugs are sorted out.
Posted: Aug 22nd 2009 1:30AM Enosoma said
If you scroll up and down really fast, all you can see is COD4AWiiarfare360IW@W over and over and over.
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